Bradford & Brother

City: Lebanon

County: St. Clair

State: Illinois

Bradford & Brother was a short-lived dry goods and grocery firm comprised of Owen J. Bradford and George A. Bradford. The pair were in Philadelphia in the autumn of 1839 and settled in Lebanon, Illinois around the end of that year. The partnership likely dissolved about three years later when George A. Bradford moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Owen J. Bradford settled in nearby Bond County and took up farming.

Complete Record, Document ID: 64529, Thomas C. Rockhill & Co. v. Bradford & Brother, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=137600; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, St. Clair County, 28 November 1839, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), St. Clair County, IL, 262; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Bond County, IL, 397; Daily Illinois State Register (Springfield), 11 November 1876, 2:4.